Ward chairman and accomplices received nearly 1 billion VND to ignore construction violations
The six subjects in the case took advantage of their positions and powers to harass, create a mechanism for asking for and receiving money, and cause trouble for those in need of construction work, in order to receive bribes of nearly 1 billion VND in order to not conduct inspections of construction order and ignore violations in construction order.
Regarding the above case, on March 20, Hanoi City Police said that based on the collected documents and evidence, on March 14, the Hanoi City Police Department issued an arrest warrant and detained 6 subjects for the act of "Receiving bribes"; including: Dang Thanh Tung - Chairman of Thanh Tri Ward People's Committee, Hoang Mai District; Nguyen Vu Diem - Vice Chairman of Thanh Tri Ward People's Committee; Bui Thanh Nha - former Captain of the Urban Construction Order Management Team of Hoang Mai District (now Chairman of Hoang Liet Ward People's Committee, Hoang Mai District); Le Thanh Thuy - Deputy Captain of the Urban Construction Order Management Team of Hoang Mai District; Tran Van Quan and Vu Cat Su - both experts of the Urban Construction Order Management Team of Hoang Mai District, in charge of Thanh Tri Ward.
Previously, through the investigation, the Hanoi Police Department discovered a case of bribery to ignore violations in construction order management in Hoang Mai district. After receiving the information, the Economic Police Department detectives collected statements from a number of cases that had given money...
One of them is the case of Ms. Mai Thi Chung (residing in Hoang Liet ward, Hoang Mai district). At the police station, Ms. Chung said that around August 2024, due to the need to build and complete the adjacent house No. 40, located on Thanh Dam street, Thanh Tri ward, Hoang Mai district (invested by Hoang Ha Construction Company Limited) from a 3.5-storey house to a 5-storey house, through Nha, she met Tung, Diem and Quan to submit an application to complete the house.
During the conversation (around September 2024), Diem said that Ms. Chung’s house was only allowed to be 3.5 stories high; if she wanted to build 5 stories high, she would need to ask permission from many authorities. The subject also “suggested” and asked Ms. Chung to give him 100 million VND, and Ms. Chung agreed…
After receiving the above amount, Diem kept 20 million VND; the remaining 80 million VND, he gave to Quan. Of this amount, Quan divided among Tung 30 million VND; Su 10 million VND; Nha 20 million VND; Thuy 10 million VND and Quan benefited 10 million VND.
Around October 2024, Ms. Chung continued to build house number 40. During this process, on November 26, 2024, Thanh Tri Ward People's Committee inspected the construction work at the CBCS housing project, including house number 40 of Ms. Chung; house number 6 of Mr. Trinh Viet Vuong; house number 38 of Mr. Doan Truong Son and house number 13 of Ms. Nguyen Thi Lieu.
Then, on December 10, 2024, Thanh Tri Ward People's Committee issued Notice No. 580/TB-UBND, requesting the above projects to stop construction. After receiving the notice, on the evening of December 19, 2024, Ms. Chung met with Mr. Son (owner of house number 38), Ms. Lieu (owner of house number 13) to agree that the 3 houses would contribute an additional 100 million VND to Diem to ask for favorable conditions to continue construction.
On December 20, 2024, Mr. Son, Ms. Chung, and Ms. Lieu met Diem at the office to discuss continuing to complete the project and gave this subject an additional 100 million VND.
At the police station, Ms. Chung stated: In order to complete house number 40, in addition to the above mentioned payments, at the end of December 2024 and the beginning of January 2025, Ms. Chung also went with Mr. Le Thanh Tung - Deputy Director of Hoang Ha Company to Diem's office and gave 20 million VND and 50 million VND respectively. Thus, the total amount of money Ms. Chung gave to Diem was 270 million VND.
During the investigation, the Hanoi City Police Department has determined that from August 2024 to present, in addition to receiving money from Ms. Chung during the process of managing construction order in Thanh Tri ward, Quan and Su also received money to not conduct inspections of violations of construction order (mainly violations of not having a construction permit, not having a land use right certificate) of 4 households with a total amount of 650 million VND.
Quan and Su both reported this incident to Tung and Diem and kept the money in a personal cabinet in Quan's office. After receiving the money, the subjects agreed to divide the profit ratio as follows: Tung from 25-30%; Diem from 15-20%; Nha 20%; Thuy 10%; Su 10% and Quan 10%.
Currently, the investigation agency has seized 579 million VND from Quan’s office cabinet. The case is being further investigated and clarified by the authorities…
